Is India rethinking its approach to the Taliban? It would certainly seem so. After years, nay decades, of refusal to talk to the Taliban, India sent its representatives to Moscow on November 9, 2018 to finally sit at the same table as the representatives of the militant organization at the “Moscow format.”http://ippreview.com/index.php/Home/Blog/single/id/868.html

Re-shaping India-United States Defense Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

It is time for the United States to recognize that the Indian Ocean is the next front line of world geopolitics and the emerging arena for a new “great game.” China’s aggressive inroads into the Indian Ocean through military bases, port leasing, and predatory economics present an imminent strategic challenge, as these advances will result in an Indo-Pacific that is less free, less open, less secure, and less prosperous for the United States and Indiahttps://www.cogitasia.com/re-shaping-india-united-states-defense-cooperation-in-the-indo-pacific/

When Modi delivered his landmark speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on 1 June 2018, there was no mention of India’s concerns over Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea. Nor did Modi explicitly mention the ‘quadrilateral’ — the emerging strategic grouping that includes India, the United States, Japan and Australia which aims to counter an increasingly assertive Chinahttp://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/07/06/indias-quadrilateral-conundrum/

22 JUNE 2018

India’s Growing Footprint in the Middle East

On March 22, 2018, Indian national carrier Air India made a historical flight from Delhi to Tel Aviv, flying straight over Saudi Arabian airspace. Israel has no diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While there was initial denial by Saudi authorities and silence from Air India, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confidently asserted that the flights would commence soon. And soon they didhttp://ippreview.com/index.php/Home/Blog/single/id/730.html

Bilateral relations between India and Myanmar have historically been uneven and contingent on specific leadership approaches on both sides. Under India’s incumbent Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, this complex relationship has seen renewed commitment within the broader agenda of “Act East” – a timely upgradation of India’s post-Cold War tilt towards southeast Asia and beyondhttp://www.ipcs.org/article/india/india-myanmar-fast-tracking-the-eastward-push-5323.html

One thing which the most ardent Modi critics would not deny is that he is a risk taker and does not cave in easily. The question on many people’s minds is whether or not he will utilize his political capital for reorienting ties with countries in the neighborhood, especially Pakistanhttp://ippreview.com/index.php/Home/Blog/single/id/387.html

27 FEBRUARY 2017

Trump’s Foreign Policy: How Will It Impact India?

India’s attention has been on changes introduced by the administration of Donald Trump. They include restrictions on H1-B visas, as well as the US’ attempt to get the UN to impose a ban on Masood Azhar, the head of Jaish-E-Mohammed. The travel ban imposed on seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as Trump’s approach towards China and Japan are also being watched closely in Indiahttp://ippreview.com/index.php/Home/Blog/single/id/360.html

Though it was short – and came relatively late – Narendra Modi’s recent one-day stopover in Hanoi, the first official trip to Vietnam by an Indian prime minister since Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s 2001 visit, was momentous as it marked a new shift in India-Vietnam relationshttp://atimes.com/2016/09/why-india-vietnam-upgraded-their-ties/

30 AUGUST 2016

Eye on China: the new defence pact that allows the US to use India’s land, air and naval bases

China continued to exert quiet but sustained pressures on India on the South China Sea issue. Beijing wants New Delhi to endorse its position on UN the International Tribunal award on the South China Sea under the United Nations Convention on Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS)http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/2039

Ajit Kumar Doval, National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is the second most important official in the government of India. His close ties with Prime Minister Modi reminds one of BN Mullik who, like him, was IB chief (1950-64), had close relationship with then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and influenced his key decisions on Kashmir, Pakistan and China. But Doval is going a few steps ahead of him with his hard line on Kashmir, Pakistan and China. The ‘doctrine’ named after him and expounded by him in two lectures delivered in 2014 and 2015 is analysed here in the light of the Pathankot airbase Attackhttp://atimes.com/2016/05/doval-doctrine-cant-help-india-to-make-peace-with-neighbors/

29 APRIL 2016

India’s focus should be peace with China, not US military ties linked to sea row

The nation invests very heavily in its armed forces who are mindful of the responsibilities; but the apathy of the government functionaries in authority is bewildering. So rampant is the bureaucratic foot-dragging in the garb of due vetting, that the formalisation of the contract for procurement of 36 Rafale fighters is still “work in progress”. With this kind of a system of higher defence management in our country, would our enemies have any worries? Little wonder that our deterrence has bee ..http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/indias-military-might-the-real-truth/

The prognosis used to be that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, geo-economics will play a central part in driving the Sino-Indian relationship. China needs the big Indian market, while India desperately seeks large Chinese investments to build transit and other infrastructure critical to economic revivalhttp://atimes.com/2016/01/modis-spluttering-china-policies/

12 JANUARY 2016

‘Make in India’ in Defence Sector: An Overview of the Dhirendra Singh Committee Report

As Nepal arrives on the South Asian political landscape as its brand new secular, democratic republic, it is ‘Communist’ China that is in celebratory mood. India is sulking. Beijing is obviously pleased with the election of a communist leader as the prime minister of Nepal, who, by the way, also used to be a ‘Maoist’ at one time in his long chequered political life. The contrast could not be sharperhttp://atimes.com/2015/10/how-china-pipped-india-at-nepal-post/

Ever since former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao reshaped India’s foreign policy in the 1990s under the so-called ‘Look East’ policy India has strengthened ties with Southeast Asia. The current government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unequivocally said that it is keen to progress from the ‘Look East’ policy to ‘Act East.’http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/04/11/why-india-needs-to-act-east/

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